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Behind the scenes - 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘐𝘐 - ┊︎ Till The End of The Moon

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Wen Kexing + flirting

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Word of Honor as text posts (47/?)

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All ten of my followers are actually hostages I have tied up in an abandoned grain silo & am monologuing to

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woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.

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Piglet’s Big Movie (2003) dir. Francis Glebas

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they won't tell you this in therapy but sometimes the best way to stop catastrophizing/anxiety is to interrupt your spiraling with "girl what the hell are you talking about"

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on the Demeter, straight up “eating it.” and by it. well, haha, let’s justr say. the entire crew

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bro LMFAOOOO

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For the fandom asks: The Dragon Prince?

That sounds cool, tell me more about it! I'm vaguely aware of it, but don't know much about it.

Send me a fandom!

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seasonings greetings

It is thyme

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starting my yearly Christmas Carol hyper analysis bullshit but something I think is very funny and also isn’t brought up enough is that Scrooge is sick as fuck during the events of the book.

He’s not eating the gruel because it’s his favorite thing. He actually goes to dinner at a pub before he goes home. The gruel is because he’s sick. It’s medicinal gruel.

A small fire in the grate; spoon and basin ready; and the little saucepan of gruel (Scrooge had a cold in his head) upon the hob.

Scrooge has a nasty cold during the entire story and that makes things ten times funnier.

You’re sick as fuck with a cold and then your dead friend shows up and yells at you. I’d want to go to sleep too.

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Do not punish the behaviour you want to see

I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right?

But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize,  snarkily say, “So, you’ve decided to join us”?

Or when someone does something they’ve had trouble doing, say, “Why can’t you do that all the time?” (Happened to me, too often.)

Or any sentence containing the word “finally”. 

If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don’t complain about how it’s not enough. Don’t bring up previous stuff. Encourage it.

Because I swear to fucking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished.

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Smaug loves to beg for showers. Most times he fluffs up and goes nuts, then other times he sits there and acts like he's just 'enduring' the shower, but if I dare stop spraying he will immediately flip his shit.

Become damp is his one goal

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The short answer is... a tilt-shift lens.

The slightly more complicated answer is... Mister Rogers.

Depth of field is the area in front and behind your chosen focus point that remains in focus and then slowly gets blurry as you get farther away.

Shallow depth of field only has a narrow slice of the image in focus and gets blurry super quick. This is caused by a large lens aperture and being close to the subject.

Deep depth of field can extend through the entire picture if your aperture is small and you are super far away.

Usually the depth of field lines up with the image sensor of your camera. So if it is tilted forward, the plane of focus matches.

The stuff outside the green area would be blurry. The edges of the green would be slightly blurry. And the dashed green line would be the sharpest area of the photo.

But the tilt-shift lens allows you to create chaos with your plane of focus. In most cases, you would use this to flatten the depth of field so you can get a 2D plane entirely in focus.

If you were to use a normal lens, the bottom left and top right would be blurry.

But with a tilt-shift lens you can do this.

The green area is taking a little nap on the floor.

However, there is an unintended side effect created by this lens. (The "Scheimpflug intersection" if you want to go down the rabbit hole.) You can choose absolutely wacky planes of focus that create a very narrow depth of field over a geographically large area.

Believe it or not, this is when psychology comes into play.

And possibly Mister Rogers.

Our only reference for such a large area having a shallow depth of field is our memories of miniatures on TV. So Mister Rogers and Thomas the Tank Engine trained our brains to see this effect as... small.

Depth of field shrinks the closer you are to something. And when filming miniatures, you are placing the lens close to the scene. But the scene represents something big in our minds. We buy the effect, but not 100%. That blurriness wouldn't be there at a regular scale. So our subconscious remembers we are watching small things pretending to be big. It just files that away in the back of our mind.

And then when we see something like this...

Our brain is all, "Look at all that tiny shit!"

Without Mister Rogers, our brains may have never made these connections and tilt-shift photography may just make us wonder why everything is all blurry. That connection to past experience is vital for this effect to be convincing.

Brains are neat.